"It's just a bit overwhelming." She said quietly.

"I know." He put his arm around her and held her tight.

Life on Hold part 6

When Sam invited SG1, Janet and Cassie over to tell them that the father was Jack, they were all a bit shocked to say the least. Daniel and Cassie managed to smash two of Sam's favourite glasses and Janet was speechless for around half an hour, Teal'c being Teal'c raised one eyebrow then the other and sat that way for the rest of the night.

The realisation that Jack was the father didn't hit home to Sam until he was helping her clean up after the guests had left.

"You're going to be a father again." Sam said dumping a bag full of broken glass into the bin.

"Yeah," He smiled at her. "I am."

"Look Jack, I uh don't want you to feel pressured into helping me out more than you would because of that."

"Sam, I would never feel pressured into helping you out. What are friends for?" he asked then walked out into the living room to collect the plates.

"Yeah, that's what friends are for." Sam muttered.

The week after, Sam was back at the SGC, Janet had given her her first scan to make sure the baby was all right and everything looked fine.

A couple of weeks later, the SGC had a surprise visit from their least favourite Senator, Kinsey turned up looking for trouble.

"Senator Kinsey, this is a nice surprise." Hammond said sarcastically.

"Yes, well word has got out that things have changed here General, things involving your premiere team."

"Well yes, things have changed but it's taken you two months to find out?"

"Just call SG1 to the briefing room General." He sneered.

A couple of minutes later, Colonel O'Neill came bounding into the briefing room followed by Dr. Jackson and Teal'c. Jack stopped dead in his tracks.

"Argh, what now Kinsey?" He cried.

"Colonel O'Neill, how nice to see you and your team again, where is Major Carter?"

"Probably in her lab like a good girl Kinsey, what's it to do with you?"

"Well when SG1 is called together don't you normally expect the whole of SG1 to turn up?"

"New flash, this is the whole of SG1." Daniel said.

"Someone hasn't been getting his memo's." Jack smiled sweetly.

"Major Carter was transferred to a science orientated team two months ago at her request, a couple of weeks later she was taken off active duty." Hammond explained.

"We had word that Major Carter was pregnant."

"Hence the taken off active duty." Jack quipped.

"With your child Jack."

"You're fast Kinsey, only a month behind everyone else."

"That's a court-marshal offence."

"Actually, we started seeing each other after she was transferred." Jack glared at the man.

"I will be investigating this further and I will find incriminating evidence, mark my words." He got up to leave.

"Is that a threat Kinsey?"

"It's a promise." He said before leaving.

"Ah crap!" Jack pounded his fist against the table.

"They will not find anything O'Neill, there is nothing to find." Teal'c stated.

"Oh they'll probably make something up. I swear, if he does anything to hurt Sam or the baby I'm going to kill him."

"That makes all of us then." Daniel said still glaring at the chair Kinsey had been sitting in.

"Indeed."

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Jack knocked on the familiar door and waited for an answer. None came. He walked around the side of the big house and found who he was looking for digging up the weeds in the flowerbed.

"Hey Sara." He smiled as she turned to see who belonged to the shadow towering over her.

"Jack, what are you doing here?" She got up from the ground and took off her gardening gloves.

"Oh well I stopped by to say 'hi'."

"And?" She smirked.

"Well um, to tell you that I'm going to be a dad again." He shuffled his feet under her gaze.

"Congratulations Jack, who's the lucky woman?"

"Uh, you remember Sam Carter from my team? Well she isn't on my team anymore."

"The blond? She seemed nice."

"She is."

"How far along is she?" Sara started to walk towards the house.

"About two and a half months."

Sara smiled. "What's bugging you Jack?"

"Nothing why, do you think something's bugging me?" Jack sat on one of the chairs in the kitchen.

"I've known you too long not to notice when something is on your mind." She opened the fridge to get a cool drink.

"Well, you know I explained about the classified work I do."

"The bare necessities."

"Well, we were on a mission and were all drugged, my whole team. Well one thing led to another and Sam got pregnant."

"So you aren't actually going out?" She poured two glasses of orange juice.

"No."

"So you feel guilty?"

"Uh, yeah."

"But you want to go out with her right?"

"Yes."

"But you don't want her to think it's because of the baby."

"It's not because of the baby, I've wanted to ask her out for years but there were restrictions to stop us. Now there aren't any but the mental ones we both have." Jack explained.

"You really love her don't you?" Sara patted his arm.

"Yes."

"Then tell her how you feel."

"I can't, you know how crap I am at talking about things."

"True, but you have to try."

A car door slammed outside.

"Oh, that'll be Ben."

"Ben?" Jack asked intrigued.

"You aren't the only one with a love life you know." She teased.

"Hey Sara, you in here?" Ben yelled.

"In the kitchen." She yelled back.

"Oh, uh you are?" Ben asked as he spotted Jack.

"Jack O'Neill, ex-husband. You must be Ben."

"Yes, nice to meet you." Ben held out his pale hand and Jack gripped it firmly in his tanned one.

"So uh, I better be going." Jack smiled at Sara.

"Aren't you forgetting the real reason you came over here?" Sara grinned.

"That would be?"

"To get Charlie's old crib, it's up in the attic."

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Jack arrived at Sam's house carrying the crib.

"Jack?" Sam asked as he carried it into the living room.

"Present from Sara, it was Charlie's."

"It's beautiful." She said running her hands over the white painted, wooden bars and the intricate design around the edges.

"She said if there was anything else we needed, or if it's a boy she has lots of Charlie's old baby things we could have."

"Thanks Jack."

"Want a drink?" He asked.

"Sure."

Jack went off to the kitchen to find the drinks leaving Sam to admire the handy work of Sara's father.

Sam found a note stuck to the bottom of the crib, it had her name on the front...